Ship Values Rise

As the world has been beset by a wave of bad financial news -- from the looming financial crisis and credit crunch to the rapidly escalating cost of industrial materials, particularly steel -- Clarkson via its weekly Clarkson Index delivered some good news for a change, as the index, which is a measure of prices for all types of vessels, rose for the first time in more than three months. According to a Bloomberg report, this has buoyed the stock prices for some of the world's largest shipbuilders, including Hyundai Heavy Industries and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

 Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. and Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering Co.,